Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as a person under the age of 18. A girl child is thus a female younger than 18 years of age

Discrimination Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit partiality or prejudice.

Dowry Money or property that a rides family must give to the family of her husband as a requirement of marriage.

4The Girl Child forms of discrimination

Female Infanticide The murder of a female infant. It occurs often as a deliberate murder or abandonment of a young girl or infant.

Selective Abortion Also called gender-selective abortion, sex-selective abortion, or female feticide-selective abortion. It involves the abortion of a fetus because it is a girl. Many women from communities or cultures with a preference for boys practice selective abortion.

5The Girl Child forms of discrimination

Female Genital Cutting (FGC) The practice that involves the removal or the alteration of the female genitalia. It is a centuries-old practice found in many countries among people from various religions and beliefs, most prevalent in Africa.

Honor Killing The practice of killing girls and women who are perceived to have dishonored a familys reputation by allegedly engaging in sexual activity or other improprieties before or outside of marriage. Improper behavior justifies grounds for killing. It has expanded to include transgressions, which are not initiated by the girl, including rape and incest.

6The Girl Child facts and statistics

Currently, 60 million girls are reported as missing as a result of infanticide, sex selective abortions, and neglect.

At least 130 million girls alive today have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, and 2 million more are at risk every year.

It is reported that at least 5,000 women and girls are murdered each year for honors sake by members of their own families.

United Nation statistics, national reports and studies initiated by non-governmental organizations repeatedly show that girls, as a group, have lower literacy rates, receive less health care, and more impoverished than boys.

Source Youth Advocate Program International www.yapi.org

Source Youth Advocate Program International www.yapi.org

Source United Nations Childrens Fund www.unicef.org

Source Amnesty International www.amnesty.org

7The Girl Child female infanticide

What The deliberate killing of a girl child.

Who Girl children who are born in societies where poverty, overpopulation, and male biases are prevalent.

Where In regions where poverty and overpopulation are prevalent. It predominantly occurs in societies where girl children are not viewed as economically advantageous.

Why Lineage, Income, Dowry, Protection, Government

8The Girl Child female infanticide

Lakshmis Case Tamil Nadu, India

Lakshmi was 20 years old and already had one daughter. Upon the arrival of a second girl she no option but to kill this second daughter. Lakshmi refused to nurse the newborn and to silence the infants cries of hunger she fed her a poisonous combination of sap and castor oil. The baby died soon after.

Hannah was genitally cut when she was eight years old. She knew little about the procedure, but understood it to be a ritual, a ceremony, a process that would allow her to become a woman. Six women held Hannah down to perform the procedure. There was no anesthesia or pain medication at any point during the procedure, and Hannah almost lost consciousness because of the immense pain. The practitioner was then paid the equivalent of one dollar for the procedure.

SourceUNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_18246.html

Approximately 54 of girls in Ethiopia are subjected to FGC. There is no national action plan to fight against this abuse. 11The Girl Child honor killing

What Killing of women that can be defined as acts of murder in which a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior.

Who Women who have failed to keep marriage contracts, refused to agree to arranged marriages, requested divorce, flirted with men other then their husbands, or for allowing themselves to be raped.

Where Most prominent in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Northwest Africa.

Why For violating sexual norms or being victims of rape or other sexual rumor. This is a custom where women are treated as property and business contracts.

12The Girl Child honor killing

Rainas Case Jordan, Southwest Asia

Raina Arafat was twenty-one years old and did not want to marry the man her family had chosen for her. She Was secretly seeing her Iraqi boyfriend whom she wanted to elope with. Her aunts told her they had arranged a secret meeting between the two and brought her to an open patch of land in the suburb of Amman. Her aunts walked away and let her brother, Rami, shoot her in the back of her head. Rainas crime was being in love with a man that was not sanctioned by her family and cultural ideals.

Source Gendercide Watch, http//gendercide.org/case_honour.html

Men who kill women for the sake of honor in Jordan are usually sentenced to only a few months in jail. They serve even less time if they hold minor status. 13The Girl Child discussion

What are three reasons why women face prejudice around the world?

Do you think that equal education of girls and boys would provide more equal rights and less discrimination against girls?

Who should be in charge of making changes regarding the issues we have discussed today?

Why do you think people continue to commit these acts, even though there are laws against them in some places?

What do you think you can do to help?

14The Girl Child what can you do?

Educate yourself about the rights of the Girl Child.

Contact local, state, and national politicians.

Write letters asking for their opinion on the rights of the Girl Child.

Talk to your parents about the CRC.

Educate the adults in your life!

Advocate for awareness of the CRC.

Begin a social awareness/ human rights club.

15The Girl Child for more information

UN High Commission on Human Rights

www.unhcr.org

UNICEF

www.unicef.org

Amnesty International

www.amnesty.org

Youth Advocate Program International

www.yapi.org

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